The editorial read: “This is a stern warning to the US imperialists and their stooges running amuck for aggression and war moves.

“The world will clearly witness how the crime-woven history of the US imperialists will be over, how the despicable remaining days of the south Korean puppet forces will come to an end and how national reunification, the cherished desire of the Korean nation, will be achieved.”

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The piece pledged that Pyongyang “will retaliate” and “the crime-woven history of the US imperialists will be over”.

North Korea also accused the US of being a “hotbed of evil” which needed to be hit with an “indiscriminate preemptive nuclear strike” to transform the superpower into “something that cannot come back to life again”.

“A fanatical regime facing extinction wouldn’t think twice about sending a container bearing a nuclear device to the US or an allied country and detonating it,” Mr Douglas said in the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.